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Chapter 16
"Hmmmm...Feels like we've been here before..." Salvador pondered looking around the purple volcanos and the disintegrating mountains.
"Because we have dumbass..." Axton said facepalming himself
Kurt was just looking around and the place that was caked in slag and Eridium. He felt that he was entirely to blame for the situation. Although the place would still look like crap...But now that crap was covered in more crap...And it was his fault. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and pulled one out and placed his lips over it. He then pulled out his lighter from the other pocket, sparking it into flames then holding over the cigarette, until it caught flame.
"Smoking is bad for you, you know?" Gaige said looking at him taking a drag.
"And I thought you were supposed to be the 'Rebel at Heart'" Kurt said using his hands as quotation marks.
Gaige then looked down at the ground then thought to herself, she was in this godforsaken planet. She probably had to make the most of it, and to prove her anarchist behavior to Kurt, win his heart maybe?
"Gimme one then!" Gaige said reaching for the pack,
"No, get your own damn smokes!" Kurt said laughing
"Fine." Gaige pouted crossing her arms like a little girl "Keep them..."
Kurt chuckled to himself, he then threw the whole pack along with the one he had in his mouth off the cliff, much to Gaige's confusion and distaste.
"I don't smoke...cigarettes.." Kurt smiled.
"Then what do you smoke?" Gaige said looking at him, only to be followed with a devilish grin. Axton caught on and laughed at that.
"Just wait when Mordecai gets back," Axton laughed "The shit he has will knock you off your ass! I mean, it can-OW!" Axton said rubbing his arm after getting punched by Maya,
"Don't." Maya said scolding him
"Heheh," Axton chuckled to himself "Whatever... Let's get goin."
The vault hunters made their way towards the Arid Nexus to finally find out where Lilith is, and to stop Jack, the particular order didn't necessarily matter at this point. Whatever info they could squeeze out would help. They were making their way towards the info stockade, when Kurt stopped and asked the hunters.
"Hey," Kurt said "Could we make a little stop somewhere? I gotta see if I can contact my Dad,"
"Well sure..But why?" Axton asked looking at him
"We're gonna need all the help we can get. My dad could dispatch some troops to help us out maybe.." Kurt explained "Plus...I kinda wanna let him know I'm still alive."
"Alright," Axton said shrugging his shoulders "But where could you contact him?"
"I know just the place.." Kurt said smiling and proceeding on.
The Vault hunters proceeded towards the house that was standing on several stilts with a giant antennae protruding from the roof. There was an elevator that leads up to the house, which was rather large.
"What's in there?" Gaige asked looking at the house.
"You'll see," Kurt said walking towards the house "Just wait here until I say so. I gotta pay a visit to somebody."
Kurt then pressed the button on the elevator to make it ascend, leaving the other 5 five Vault hunters on the bottom.
"Why couldn't we go up with him?" Gaige asked Axton, which he replied
"Got no clue, maybe he's gotta-"
"This is Hunter Hellquist coming live from Pandora!" Hellquist said over the ECHO cutting him off.
"Goddamnit, THIS guy again..." Salvador said letting out a groan,
"Who's this?" Gaige asked Axton again
"Just some rambling douchebag spewing lies to propagandize the people of Pandora against us..." He answered
"We are still on the look out for the mass murder Axton the Commando who has reportedly kicked 7 puppies last week and fed 5 kittens to the grinder in Overlook! he is also responsible for the death of the lovable and stern Mr. Blake! He also assisted the other savages in killing Jack's own daughter among other crimes such as aiding a Siren's escape!" Hellquist said
"I don't even like cats..." Axton said quietly.
"We would like to remind you that his bounty is 800 Billion dollars! Highest bounty of the Vault hunters! We also offering a reward for Dr. Kurtis Thatcher for Malpractice and being an asshole and slacker! Oh...It...It... seems somebodies at my door...Uh...hello?"
"Hello..." A voice said over the ECHO.
"NO! NOO!" Hellquist screamed before getting thrown out of the tower he was broadcasting from, landing headfirst on the ground, snapping his neck right in front of the Vault Hunters. It cause Gaige to jump and scream, Maya to jump a bit and cover her mouth, and Axton to cringe a bit at the pain Hellquist had to go through, but his sympathy was short lived because he remembered all the stuff he said about him.
"Okay!" Kurt yelled "You guys can come up now!" Before walking back into the building.
Axton took one more look at Hellquist's mangled corpse before walking over to the elevator that led up to the observatory. Gaige looked at Hellquist's body and moved it around with her foot, making sure that he was actually dead. If she was to live on Pandora, she would have to get used to stuff like this.. She then caught up with the rest of them to head up the elevator.
"Why couldn't we come up with you?" Axton asked looking at Kurt
"Oh, I just wanted to kill him myself," Kurt laughed to himself, causing Axton to roll his eyes.
"Okay, so," Kurt began "I can rewire this tower to broadcast a transmission to my Dad's location, hopefully he picks it up,"
Kurt then opened up the transmission box from the side and spliced and placed wires in separate places so they could do that task he talked about, contacting his father. The screen began to show a fuzzy picture of a man in the camera.
"Hello? Albert O'Malley Thatcher, come in. This is Kurtis Malcolm Thatcher, do you read?" Kurt said looking at the camera that was posted on top of the screen.
"Hello? Who the hell is that? Your pictures all shitty!" The man buzzed in.
"Dad? Is that you?" Kurt asked
"Kurtis...? Is it really you!?' He said, now that the picture was coming in clear. The Vault hunters looked at the screen to a see a man approximately in his 50s wearing a army beret with a military trench coat on. He was wearing several badges and medals on his chest as well.
"Well I'll be damned Kurt, I knew you were alive all those years!" His dad said happy to see his boy again.
"Hey Dad.." Kurt said smirking at the screen
"Are you still on that Butthole of a planet yet? Also, what the fuck happened to your arms boy?" His dad said looking at each of his shoulders
"Experiment gone wrong...Look, we need some TITAN soldiers and sets of armor shipped to Pandora ASAP. Were trying to overthrow Hyperion!" Kurt said
"Well, if it's for the sake of taking down that rambling cock-eater then it's alright with me! I'll dispatch a small company of TITANs to help you out with your little problem. Should take about a day to get there, that fine?" His dad asked
"Yeah, should be fine.." Kurt said
"Okay, I've called in the order. I'll see you tomorrow I guess. Good to know you're still alive, son." His dad said looking at him,
"Yeah...Kurtis signing off," He said before cutting off the transmission.
"TITAN?" Maya asked "Wasn't that just a prototype program?"
"No. My dad reinvented the TITAN program after my Grandfather passed." Kurt said "I'll show you a picture of Venom Company."
"Venom Company?" Axton asked
"Yeah, It's a division of the military, some of my friends are actually in that branch." Kurt said to Axton before pulling out a chip and inserting it into the computer, pulling out a file.
Kurt was right, these soldiers were nothing Axton has ever seen before in his life. They were about 8.5 feet tall and had muscles the size of heads. They were plated in what seemed like a high-tech armor permutation with pouches for magazines, grenades and such. They were carrying a Thatcher armaments weapon that looked sleek, and powerful at the same time.
"Whoa..." Salvador said "Those are some beeeg soldiers..."
"Yeah they are, let's head to the Info stockade...again," Axton said sadistically.
As they made their way to the door to get into the Nexus, was blocked off. Possibly so they couldn't get information from the tower. Jack sealed their only way for getting info about Lilith's whereabouts.
"Damnit!" Axton yelled "Now how the hell are we gonna get there?"
"Hmmm," Kurt said looking around "Maybe we could use those slag pumps to crawl our way through there...that could work."
"Slab!" Brick buzzed in on the ECHO device "Mordecai and I were successful in stealing a big-ass barge from Hyperion, we could use that as support for our final assault,"
"That's good," Axton said through the microphone "We've ordered a small company of super soldiers to help us with the assault too."
"Are they badasses?" Brick asked
"Yeah...Like 10 feet tall badass," Axton said to Brick through the ECHO
"Perfect..." Brick said "Jack don't stand a chance.."
"False, Piss-for-brains." Jack said through the ECHO "You seriously think I'm gonna let you into my security info tower that easily? You might as well just give up Axton. I've won!"
"Axton..." A voice said in his mind
"What? Who the hell's this?" Axton thought to himself
"It's Lilith...For some reason I can contact you and nobody else..." Lilith said in his mind "Axton...Promise me something, please. As long as you got a bullet left in the chamber, you make sure that motherfucker pays for what he's done to Roland...Make him pay.."
"Don't worry.." Axton thought in his mind "I've got my own reason why I want Jack dead..."
"Why?" Lilith asked him,
Axton paused for a minute then finally said,
'He's my brother..."
"W-What?!" Lilith said in disbelief "How the?!"
"He's done me more wrong than you think...Just know I'll make him pay for what he's done to you, me and everybody on this planet..." Axton thought
"Okay...Just promise me you'll make him suffer.." Lilith said to Axton
"I promise..." Axton thought
"And don't feel bad about Angel Axton...Jack pulled the plug way before you came along to free her..." Lilith reassured him
"Don't you...say anything...About my daughter..." Jack said coldly over the ECHO
"Why shouldn't I?" Axton said "Why shouldn't I talk about my niece that you enslaved to do your own will?!"
"Shut up...Shut up..." Jack said slowly over the ECHO
"Now I can see why Samantha would fucking hang herself from her own goddamn neck! She figured out how much of a greedy selfish bastard you truly are John!"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Jack screamed over the ECHO, now completely furious at Axton
"MAKE ME YOU FUCKING COWARD!" Axton screamed back at Jack "COME AND GET ME YOU FUCKING PUSSY!"
Jack's deep breaths could be heard from the other side of the ECHO. This is the first time he's gotten that angry in a VERY long time.
"...In due time Axton...In due time..." Jack said calming down a bit...
For the first time, Maya was scared of how Axton looked, his face was red from the anger and frustration, and his eyes could seemingly melt people to the ground with his infinite gaze. He looked like he's just slaughtered a hundred bandits and is asking for more bloodshed. He looked pissed as hell. She walked up to Axton and put her hand on his shoulder.
"It's okay Axton..." She said softly "Calm down..It's okay..."
"Just..." Axton began "...I'm fine Maya. Just needed to yell at my asshole brother that's all. I'm okay Maya..."
'Okay..." Maya said softly once again looking into his greenish hazel eyes.
"Guys!" Kurt said "I found a pipe that can lead into the Nexus!"
As the other 5 Vault hunters made their way to the pipe Kurt was talking about, they saw him scooping up handfuls of sand into a capsule he had and sealing it up.
"What's that for?" Gaige asked looking at him
"You'll see" Kurt said looking back at Gaige
"So the question is...how will we break through this pipe?" Axton asked looking at the solid steel pipe that flowed with the Slag compound.
"Maybe I can punch through it..." Kurt said analyzing the pipes thickness, causing Gaige to scoff.
"Pfffttt, there's no way you can punch through that! That's gotta be made of solid Tita-"
There was a loud banging noise heard as Kurt's hand thrusted through the very powerful alloy like a hot knife through butter. The other vault hunters looked in shock while witnessing this.
"-nium.." Gaige said finish completely dumbfounded that Kurt's arms were so strong that he could easily punch through 5-inch thick titanium alloy.
Kurt then grabbed a piece of the pipe and ripped it off using brute force, creating a rather large hole letting the Slag ooze out from the pipe that was carrying it to the Nexus.
"Gross..." Axton said looking at the purple compound, "Also nice punch Kurt..."
"I hope that doesn't dissuade you from boxing me again.." Kurt laughed looking at him, causing Axton to look at him and smirked,
"Fuck no.." Axton said to Kurt.
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